President Trump on Tuesday nominated CIA veteran Gina Haspel to be the spy agency’s next director, tapping a woman who spent multiple tours overseas and is respected by the workforce but is deeply tied to the agency’s use of brutal interrogation measures on terrorism suspects.

Haspel, 61, would become the first woman to lead the CIA if she is confirmed to succeed outgoing director Mike Pompeo, who has been nominated to serve as secretary of state. Haspel’s selection faced immediate opposition from some lawmakers and human rights groups because of her prominent role in one of the agency’s darkest chapters.

She's mostly known for the EITs used in the Thailand black site on this winner....

Until the attacks on New York and Washington, Abu Zubaida was a committed jihadist who regarded the United States as an enemy principally because of its support of Israel. He helped move people in and out of military training camps in Afghanistan, including some men who were or became members of al-Qaeda, according to interviews with multiple sources, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. He was widely known as a kind of travel agent for those seeking such training.

I won't lose any sleep over it, but I'm sure Graham is already swooning.

Truth has to be repeated constantly, because Error also is being preached all the time, and not just by a few, but by the multitude. In the Press and Encyclopaedias, in Schools and Universities, everywhere Error holds sway, feeling happy and comfortable in the knowledge of having Majority on its side.

...Obsta principiis—Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people. When the people give way, their deceivers, betrayers and destroyers press upon them so fast that there is no resisting afterwards. The nature of the encroachment upon [the] American constitution is such, as to grow every day more and more encroaching. Like a cancer, it eats faster and faster every hour." - John Adams, February 6, 1775

Haspel’s selection faced immediate opposition from some lawmakers and human rights groups because of her prominent role in one of the agency’s darkest chapters.

Haspel was in charge of one of the CIA’s “black site” prisons where detainees were subjected to waterboarding and other harrowing interrogation measures widely condemned as torture.

The WaPo makes this claim in the third and fourth sentences of its article. Yet in the 40+ sentences that follow, there is absolutely NOTHING that substantiates this claim. Furthermore, they link to an earlier WaPo article where they openly admit as to not knowing where these "black sites" are.

More fake news.

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Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.

Oh that's right - it's only a 'first' and only counts when Marxist Democrats in office put people into positions of power because of their skin color and what is between their legs, or lack thereof.

Correctamundo! It's just like when Bill Clinton nominated Ruth Bader Ginsburg as the first woman on the US Supreme Court. Or when Carol Mosely Braun became the first African American US Senator in 1993.

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Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.

Sure. Let’s see the democrats attack his selection for the first woman ever to be nominated to head tha CIA. Trump plays his enemies like a Stradivarius.

They will attack her in the same manner they attack any pick by a Republican that is female or of color.

If you don't think they will I've got some beach property in W. Texas I'd like to sell you.

All Democrats are concerned about is the fact she is NOT a Liberal like they are. And because she's not and because she is working for THIS president (I can hear their shrill bleating already) they will rip her to shreds.

Liberals have been doing their best to destroy the CIA since back in the days of the Church Commission. They would look at her as just another scalp collected.

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The libs/dems of today are the Quislings of former years. The cowards who would vote a fraud into office in exchange for handouts from the devil.